Iran Imprisons Economics Professor

Citing Iranian newspapers, the Associated Press reported on Thursday that an appeals court in Iran had handed down a six-year prison sentence to a professor and journalist who is suspected of being involved in post-election turmoil there. Saeed Leilaz, an economics professor at Shahid Beheshti University, was convicted of “insulting the country’s supreme leader, violating public order, and participating in a plan to disturb the country’s security,” his lawyer said.